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From: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Low Level Format on a Miniscribe 3650
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Date: 26 Dec 87 00:28:40 GMT
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Keywords: fdisk prep miniscribe 3650 help!

Thank you to Mirian Clifford and especially to Clarence W. Wilkerson Jr.
It turns out that XT style disk controllers have a built-in formatter.
It can be invoked using:

	DEBUG
	g=c800:05

You need to know some information about the drive you are formatting.  My
drive did not come with a spec sheet so I do no know what these should be
for a MiniScribe 3650.  I need to know:

	Total Cylinders
	Total Heads (I think this is 6)
	Write Precomp Cylinder
	Starting Reduced Write Cylinder
	Max Correctable Error Burst Length
	CCB Option Byte

If any one has a MiniScribe 3650, I could really use this information!

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